Quilt - Red and blue crumb squares sashed with yellow fabric along with some hand stitched daisies

I have been working on this quilt (48.5" x 59.5") for a while off and on between other activities.  I started by adding yellow sashing between the 12 dark red and blue crumb squares which I made a while back.  I added a large yellow border in the same fabric as the sashing, added a thin cotton batting and a dark blue backer which I wrapped around the edge and used to bind the quilt as well.  I added a row of green stitching between the two red ones on the large border and hand stitched red flowers onto the line.  I had to be careful not to go to deep with my stitches because I added the flowers after the quilt was finished.  I am really happy with how it turned out and how well the little stitched flowers finish it off!!  Therese

 

Christmas cards with fun school bus tags on varied backgrounds

Another set of cards for my sister with school buses on them.  These are all Christmas cards and were created with the same sketch but with a variety of different papers and card bases.  These are large cards - 5.5" x 8.5" because she has a supply of this size of envelopes.  I colour printed three different images of festively decorated buses and started creating!!  I created them one at a time  - a card base, then a background that was appropriate for the image and then a die cut tag which I embellished with coordinating layers and the images.  There is some embossing, tearing, texture created with my tracing wheel, sanding of white core cardstock, etc.  Each tag has a yellow reinforcement and then a coordinating fiber, ribbon or raffia tied to the tag.  It is so much fun to just create and try different things and just keep putting together elements.  I am suprised to see that they seem to fall into three collections as they were not created that way!!         Therese